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STORY: UNFPA / WORLD POPULATION ADVANCER
TRT: 01:32
SOURCE: UNFPA
RESTRICTIONS: EMBARGOED UNTIL 4:01 GMT, 20 OCTOBER 2016
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 12 OCTOBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – UNFPA - AUGUST 13-14 2016, AFAR, ETHIOPIA
1. Med shot, girl saddles a camel with a piece of plastic sack-type material
2. Close up, girl tying down saddle
3. Various shots, girl walking with camel, which is carrying water containers
12 OCTOBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA):
“The ten year old girl is one we need to protect so that we stop people from making choices for them and we allow them the free space to grow.”
FILE – UNFPA - 2014, BURKINA FASO
6. Med shot, girl pounding rock in mine
7. Med shot, girl pounding rock in mine
8. Close up, pounding rock in mine
12 OCTOBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY
9.SOUNDBITE (English) Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA):
“We decided to select the ten year old as the index of development, because for the sustainable goals that we all agreed to in 2015, she would be 25 when we would have done everything we need to do implementing those goals. So she would actually be our index of success.”
FILE – UNFPA - AUGUST 13-14 2016, AFAR, ETHIOPIA
10. Various shots, Aysha washing face and washing clothes at the river
12 OCTOBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA):
“We have to protect their rights, we have to make sure they get quality education.”
FILE - UNFPA - ALEPPO, SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC 14 MAY 2016
12. Med shot, Esraa studies at home.
13. Close up, Esraa studies at home.
14. Close up, Esraa writes on a piece of paper.
A new United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) report underlines that Sustainable Development Goals will be achieved only if everyone’s potential is realized. That includes 10-year-old girls, whose futures are often undermined by child marriage, early pregnancy and other harmful practices.
According to UNFPA, 10-year-old adolescent girls represent the demographic that is left behind in most places in the world. There are approximately 60 million of them today. About 35 million live in countries with high levels of gender inequality.
UNFPA’s Executive Director Babatunde Osotimehin said “the 10-year-old girl is one we need to protect so that we stop people from making choices for them and we allow them the free space to grow.”
He added “we decided to select the 10-year-old as the index of development, because for the sustainable goals that we all agreed to in 2015, she would be 25 when we would have done everything we need to do implementing those goals. So she would actually be our index of success.”
He also urged the international community to protect the rights of girls and make sure they get quality education.
According to UNFPA, an adolescent girl dies as a result of violence every 10 minutes.10-year-old girls are subjected to countless abuses linked to gender inequality, like child marriage, female genital mutilation, forced or coerced sex, unintended pregnancy, or the denial of education.
